Announcements
30.04.2024 Mary M. McCarthy

We will look at what is fundamentally at the core of US-Japan relations as we peruse issues across security, economics, people-to-people exchange, the environment and sustainability, and science and technology. Historical legacies will be a thread throughout. The volume will cover US-Japan collaboration and partnership, as well as challenges or areas of conflict, from the past, through the present, and into the future.

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Reviews
Rev. by Geert Castryck, Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The importance of caravan transportation for long-distance trade in late pre-colonial East Africa as well as the indispensable role of human porterage in the military expeditions of colonial conquest have long been established. Contemporaries knew it; travelogues literally spell it out; missionary, scientific, and colonial-administrative sources address the practical organization of caravans and porterage for their enterprises as well as the challenges or outright problems these caravans posed.

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Journals

Worlds of Management: Transregional Perspectives on Management Knowledge, 1950s–1970s

Ed. by Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen, Lukas Becht, Florian Peters, and Vítězslav Sommer

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Articles
By Victoria Kravtsova, Humboldt Universität Berlin

Between the post-s

Russian theorist Madina Tlostanova describes the ex-Soviet space as a “void”[1] in the structure of global knowledge production, in which the Global South has a symbolic right to postcolonialism and the Global North, to postmodernism. For her, post-socialism or post-communism as a theoretical lens is insufficient to grasp the “postsocialist, postcolonial and post imperial overtones [that] intersect and communicate in the complex imaginary of the ex-Soviet space.”[2] Tlostanova believes that the Soviet approach to creating “its own New Woman in her metropolitan and colonial versions” implied that “the gendered subjects of the ex-colonies of Russia and the USSR are not quite postcolonial and not entirely postsocialist.”[3] However, this specificity, as well as “presocialist local genealogies of women’s struggles and resistance, tend to be erased.”[4]

Postcolonial theory becomes increasingly popular in the post-Soviet contexts as processes of decolonization continue in the former ‘periphery’ of the former USSR.

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